{"id":331,"date":"2010-02-28T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T23:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=331"},"modified":"2013-09-24T09:39:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T14:39:14","slug":"hammond-week-2010-pt1-rhoda-scott-trio-sha-bazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Hammond Week 2010 Pt1 – Rhoda Scott Trio – Sha Bazz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download -Rhoda Scott Trio – Sha Bazz <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Greetings all. <\/strong><\/p>\n

As I sit here, just having come in from dragging an overloaded garbage can through the slush to its appointed spot (in another pile of slush), in the hopes that the garbage man will grace us with his presence so we don\u2019t have to resort to an unfortunate system of indoor composting and burning garbage in the fireplace, I am temporarily chilled to the bone. Though we were spared the threatened snow disaster, it\u2019s cold like the devil\u2019s underpants out there. This winter has gone from bad to worse, and we now have several strata of dirty snow covering another layer of frozen mud in our front yard. The winter wonderland has morphed into a post-apocalyptic wasteland in a few short months, and we, the helpless observers are reduced to huddling by the fire, praying for spring.
\nIt is in that spirit, and the knowledge that many of you are so afflicted, that I attempt to warm the surrounding environment with an entire week of Hammond organ burners.
\nBefore I get started, I’d like to send out good wishes and congratulations to DJ Birdman<\/strong> and his lovely wife, who are the proud parents of a bouncing baby boy! If I know one thing for sure, in addition to parents that love him, that kid will grow up in a house full of good music (much like my own children<\/em>).
\nThe last time I did this, a little over a year ago, I figured it would become an ongoing series. I didn\u2019t know it\u2019d take me an entire year to get back to it.
\nThe good thing it, that in the ensuing time I have amassed quite a stack of heaters to choose from, so much so that picking only three of them proved to be a daunting task.
\nThe tune I bring you today is a fairly recent acquisition, the result of a chance sighting on a set sale list.
\nOne of my favorite Hammond 45s is \u2018Hey Hey Hey\u2019 by the Rhoda Scott Trio<\/strong>. Picked up years ago while digging, its deep in the club<\/em>, party time spirit never fails to give me a lift. In the years since I found that 45, I\u2019ve always kept my eyes peeled for other stuff by Miss Scott, and was thwarted until I found the album featuring today\u2019s selection.
\nRhoda Scott, a native of my home state of New Jersey is one of the leading lights of that very exclusive sorority of female Hammond organists, along with Shirley Scott <\/strong>(no relation) and Bu Pleasant<\/strong>. She got her start playing in and around New York and New Jersey, before relocating to France in the mid-1960s (where she continues to play today).
\nThe tune I bring you today \u2018Sha Bazz\u2019 is from her 1963 LP \u2018The Rhoda Scott Trio Live!!! at the Key Club’. I bought this album pretty much blind, mainly on the strength of the fact that it was on the same label as \u2018Hey Hey Hey\u2019. I had no idea \u2013 until I started to do some research \u2013 that Tru-Sound was in fact a subsidiary of the Prestige label.
\nWhen the record fell through the mail slot, and I had the opportunity to drop the needle on the wax, I was in a word (or two), blown away.<\/em>
\nScott\u2019s trio at the time consisted of multi-instrumentalist Joe Thomas <\/strong>(who has appeared in the space before on his main axe, the flute) and drummer Bill Elliot<\/strong>. \u2018Live at the Key Club\u2019 is evidence that they were wholly capable of kicking ass.
\n\u2018Sha Bazz\u2019, which starts out with a mix of drums and chanting quickly evolves into a showcase for Scott\u2019s mastery of the Hammond, building into a nine-minute plus crash course on the power of the instrument. \u2018Sha Bazz\u2019 is pure heat, with Scott\u2019s organ in overdrive and extended solos by Thomas and Elliot.
\nI know I\u2019ve made this allusion before (and I probably will again) but it sounds like Scott is straining the ability of the board (or the tape) to contain the sound coming out of the Hammond. You listen to this record and imagine some unsuspecting person strolling into the club, seeing the petite woman at the organ, ordering some old school cocktail (Rusty Nail anyone?) and then, before you know what happened it\u2019s all KA-BLAMMM!<\/strong> And your hair is all mussed, and your glasses are on crooked and your drink is all over your pants and you look like one of those astronauts in a rocket sled with your face all peeled back and your eyes all bugged out.<\/p>\n

Know what I\u2019m saying???<\/em>
\nIt\u2019s records like this that make me wish I could step into the Wa-Bac machine (props to Mr Peabody and Sherman<\/strong>) and go back to any number of inner city bars in the 60s where players like Rhoda Scott were burning the joint up with small groups like this, perfectly bridging the gap between jazz, rhythm and blues and the oncoming freight train known as soul. The really groovy thing \u2013 especially for organ nuts like myself \u2013 is that Shirley Scott was (and is) adept at running bass lines on the Hammond\u2019s foot pedals, making the trio sound like a much larger group.
\nI remember reading an interview with Jimmy Smith<\/strong> more than 20 years ago (maybe in Musician?) where he basically said, if you weren\u2019t able to work those bass pedals, you weren\u2019t really playing the Hammond. If you want to hear a great example of this \u2013 albeit in a much rawer context \u2013 check out Toussaint McCall\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Shimmy\u2019. There, in a 45 that is all but exploding with sound, you have only an organist and a drummer, where once again the organist is doing the work of two, operating the top and bottom ends of the Hammond. That\u2019s musicianship.
\nHeavy stuff indeed, baby.
\nDig it and I\u2019ll be back on Wednesday with more of the same.<\/p>\n

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